Number of documents: 37
Fish Farmer Field School: Towards healthier milkfish / shrimp polyculture and fish farmer empowerment in South Sulawesi
Case study
2011 - Aquaculture Asia - Ben Brown and Ratna Fadillah
Sustainable aquaculture in Indonesia through a Fish Farmer Field School.
English
Production system: Aquaculture, Fisheries
From Farmers' Field Schools to community IPM. Scaling up the IPM movement
Key documents on FFS
2011 - LEISA Magazine - Russ Dilts
A people-centred IPM movement has grown in Asia since the 1980s, and is now spreading to parts of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. During this period, many variants have evolved, and continue to evolve, within the specific natural and operational environments of different countries, cultures, and communities. From [...]
English
Production system:
Communicating Climate Forecast to Farmers though Climate Field School: Indonesian Experience
Case study
2010 - Laboratory of Climatology, Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Bogor Agricultural University/Indramayu Agriculture Office/Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre - Boer, Rizaldi Tamkani, Kusnomo Subbiah, A.R.
English
Production system:
Effect of Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field School (IPMFFS) on Farmers’ Knowledge, Farmers Groups’ Ability, Process of Adoption and Diffusion of IPM in Jember district
Technical background material
2010 - Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development - Rizal Rustam
This research aims to explore the effect of the integrated pest management farmer field school (IPMFFS) on farmers’ knowledge, farmers groups’ ability, and process of adoption and diffusion of IPM in Jember District, Indonesia. The population of the research was 556 groups of farmers, with 22.240 farmers who are engaged [...]
English
Production system:
Conceptual and methodological developments in innovation
Technical background material
2009 - Wageningen University & Research - Neils Roling
I use an autobiographical approach to tell the story of innovation and its changing fortunes and uses. I have lived through the major approaches and perspectives in the past 50 years and have played some role in them myself. The paper starts off with my early days with the [...]
English
Production system:
Farmer Field School for Potato Integrated Pest Management - A Facilitator’s Field Guide
Training material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sri Wahyuning, Warsito Tantowijoyo, Elske van de Fliert
This guide is meant as a reference for IPM FFS facilitators. It describes
exercises for the farmer field school learning process relating to sustainable
potato cultivation. This learning process begins with preparing fields for planting
and goes on right up to marketing harvest produce. These experiential learning
exercises are intended to empower farmers to [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
Optimising the productivity of the potato/Brassica cropping system in Central and West Java
Information on projects
2005 - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research -
The overall purpose of this project is to assist farmers in Central and West Java to increase their returns from the potato and Brassica production system by adapting proven Australian, Indonesian and CIP technologies to conditions in Central and West Java to develop best local farming practices.
The project will:
1. [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons, Root/Tuber crops
The acquisition and diffusion of knowledge: the case of pest management training in Farmer Field Schools, Indonesia
Impact assessment
2004 - Journal of Agricultural Economics - Gershon Feder, Rinku Murgai, and Jaime B. Quizon
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are an intensive training approach introduced in the last decade in many developing countries to promote knowledge and uptake of ecologically sensible production approaches, and in particular, integrated pest management which minimises pesticide use. Because of the high training cost, the viability of the program depends [...]
English
Production system:
Farmer Field Research: An Analysis of experiences in Indonesia
Case study
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office of Asia and the Pacific - Henkvan den Berg, Peter A.C. Doi, Arief L. Hakim, Hartjahjo Ariawan and Widyastama Cahyana
This publication examines five cases of farmer field research in Indonesia.
English
Production system:
Sending farmers back to school: the impact of Farmer Field Schools in Indonesia
Impact assessment
2003 - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper - Gershon Feder, Rinku Murgai, and Jaime B. Quizon
English
Production system: